Ubuntu

I'm going to try out Ubuntu. I'll dual boot until I understand Linux. The question I have is, when installing video card drivers, sound drivers and such, does these drivers have to be installed via terminal or konsole?

Also, is there a work around for installing Photoshop with Wine? I've read that the newest version of wine is causing a lot of errors when installing this.

Thanks for the reply. When I try to install Ubuntu, I select format hd and install, but I get an error "Input/output error during read on /dev/sda". This is a new ssd with xp on it, should I format the drive prior to installing?

GIMP is powerful (though not so much as Photoshop), but extremely difficult to use IMO. Then again I'm not a graphics artist.

For using Windows stuff on Linux, your best bet is probably a Windows VM (Virtualbox or VMWare, KVM is more for servers). Wine works for a lot of stuff, but sound and 2D graphics are problematic.

Re drivers, most of them should be compiled into the default kernel. The only ones you'll want to install are the video drivers (if using an ATI/AMD or nVidia card), and those can be gotten from the Ubuntu repository via the package management GUI.

(Ubuntu is an OS that tries to do everything for you, even more so than Windows. Whether it actually succeeds at that is another matter entirely IMO.)